Chapter 25

The Long Island Expressway under the torrential rain looked like a black river flowing toward the underworld.

The hijacked black Chevrolet SUV drove without headlights, moving like a ghost shark stalking the deep sea, slicing through the rain curtain at a hundred miles an hour. The wipers thrashed madly, yet failed to fully clear the heavy film of water on the windshield.

Clemenza sat in t